Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex - Softcover

Pat Califia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573440965 ISBN 13: 9781573440967

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2000

Synopsis

Public Sex collects the best of Pat Califia's work published over the past 20 years. Providing both a chronicle of the radical sex movement in the United States, as well as the definitive opinions of America's most consistent and trenchant sexual critic, Public Sex is must-read material for anyone interested in sexual practices, feminism, censorship, or simply the art of the political essay.

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Review:

Among the beacons of sex radicalism--alongside Susie Bright, Carol Queen, Kate Bornstein, and very few others--Pat Califia has been writing angry, sex-positive essays and politically charged erotica since the late 1970s. The bulk of her many nonfiction pieces is collected in this reprint of a book first published in 1994, providing a lively, informal history of the sex wars of the '80s and '90s--from the absurd, puritanical Meese Commission Report to the antiporn feminists to the unexamined attitudes behind the popular Re/Search book Modern Primitives. The chief apologist for the S/M community and one of the strongest voices in the anticensorship fight, Califia is at her best when the subject is closest to home. Her peevish reflections on the stupidity and political shortsightedness of anti-S/M feminists and lesbians are a joy to read; you can hear the swish of her whip and the stamp of her boot heel. With its excellent introduction, this book should be on the shelf of every feminist, every lesbian, every sexual adventurer, and anyone who hopes to understand sexual politics in America. --Regina Marler

About the Author:

Patrick Califia--formerly Pat Califia--is the author of Speaking Sex to Power, Public Sex, and Sensuous Magic. He lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1573440965
• ISBN 13: 9781573440967
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250